NEWS
6
Friday, July 5 – Saturday, July 6
And the Winner is...
(see the pages 4-5)
Gabriela Andrejková
How did you get to mathematics and informatics?
Being at the elementary school, I was good in counting; also, my father supported me in this direction. Moreover, in the last three years we had very good teacher of mathematics, who encouraged me to deal with mathematics more. Later, at the secondary school, Professor Haviar led me to solve mathematical olympiad. I also attended the special mathematical class for talented students from all Slovak republic. Then I began to study at the university in Bratislava, general mathematics firstly, then numerical methods and their connections to computers. We had extended lessons on programming, and, also, we were constructing analog computers from components <smile>. I liked to be there, and I like my work – more-less <laugh>.
What is your opinion on the mutual relation of mathematics and informatics?
In the present time, the informatics may be viewed as the theoretical or the practical one. I consider myself to be theoretical informatician. This branch strongly needs mathematics. It developed its own methods, though maybe of less usage in pure mathematics.
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What was your way to informatical olympiad and CEOI?
In the past, I was solving mathematical olympiad (in that time, there was no informatical olympiad yet), I was quite succesful. And, since I am competitive and I do support competitions <laugh>, when I was asked to work in organizing informatical part of the mathematical olympiad at the Eastern Slovakia, I agreed. Within years, I attended (as official member of the Slovak team) several IOI-competitions, and, in the last time, we were discussed about the possibility to organize CEOI in Slovakia. Thus, we decided to prepare it, we wrote the project, and it was accepted and we are here.
Can you tell us some funny story from the scene of the informatical olympiad?
Well, with young contestants, one has many experiences; once, when travelling to Turkey on IOI, we had to enter the plane at the Vienna airport, but, just right before boarding, one boy couldn’t find his airplane ticket. In the forthcoming chaos, we were trying to look for it everywhere, even we were making plans how to get money for the new one. As the last chance, we decided to follow the route back to the hotel and to explore all the route in detailed way. And, the ticket was really found, thrown in a big flower-pot on the street…
What are your plans for the future?
I believe that we will have good team for this years’ IOI, and, also, I would like to work further in the informatical olympiad, preparing new organizers. I think that the olympiad is a good thing, because if young people solve interesting tasks, they don’t do the evil <laugh> and, the level of their thinking increases.
Do you have favourite books, movies?
Well, being busy, I choose books to read, and, if a book is chosen, then it becomes my favourite one <smile>. Last time, I read – for improving my German language skills – Heinrich Buhl’s “The opinions of a clown”, the dramas of Durrenmant (The Visit of Old Lady, The Physicists), the works of Franz Kafka. As for the movies, I liked very much “Asterix and Obelix” and Oliver Stone’s “JFK”, also, some older Czech movies.
Do you use to play computer games?
Yes, I use to play Manic Miner or Pasians, but only in breaks during the work. Also, during the summer, I organize basic courses on computers for children, and there I try to play with them some strategic games, but they are involved more than me. I am not against computer games, if they are well-programmed and treated in reasonable way.
Do you have some favourite slogan?
I don’t know its exact formulation, it’s from the Latin, in the sense that “the word ‘to study’ means ‘to work hard, systematically’”. It seems that some of our students should realize it… it would be good for them to realize it.
And, your final message for the readres of our News?
Keep your fingers crossed for us on IOI and CEOI !
Tomáš Madaras
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Alan Mathison Turing
Born: 23 June 1912 in Paddington, London, England
Died: 7 June 1954 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
Alan Mathison Turing was born to upper-middle-class British parents. As soon as he began attending school, his aptitude for the sciences began to emerge. The interest in mathematics, which turned to active work already at the secondary school, led Turing to study mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 1931. In 1935 he defended his thesis and continued to work at the King’s College. He concentrated on theory of algorithms and, later with E. Post, he published the proof of inherent impossibility of solving certain problems by universal algorithms. In this work, he established the theory of an abstract universal computer – the Turing machine. From 1936 to 1938, he became a graduate student at Princeton University where he studied logic.
When the World War II began, he moved to Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, where he contributed to codebreaking and deciphering the messages from the German Enigma machine. At the end of the war, he was invited by the National Physical Laboratory in London to design a computer. He returned to Cambridge for the academic year 1947-48 where his interests ranged over many topics far removed from computers or mathematics, in particular he studied neurology and physiology. In 1948, he moved to the University of Manchester, where he continued the research of problems on theory of algorithms and worked on the first English computer. He was also working on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. For his discoveries on Turing machines, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1951.
Turing was put on trial for consensual gay sex and was sentenced to take hormone injections. Turing was very open and honest as a gay man and took a defiant attitude. His being gay resulting in his being regarded as a security risk, and this perhaps more than the hormone treatment was the background to his suicide by eating a poisoned apple.
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place / code / name / surname / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / sum / medal1. / SVK 1 / Peter / Bella / 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 50 / 40 / 490 / golden
2. / ROM 2 / Victor / Costan / 100 / 80 / 100 / 60 / 20 / 20 / 380 / golden
3. / ROM 1 / Daniel / Dumitran / 10 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 20 / 50 / 380 / golden
4. / POL 1 / Bartosz / Walczak / 0 / 93 / 100 / 50 / 100 / 10 / 353 / silver
5. / SVK 2 / Jozef / Tvarožek / 100 / 60 / 20 / 60 / 30 / 80 / 350 / silver
6. / POL 2 / Karol / Cwalina / 10 / 86 / 100 / 20 / 40 / 80 / 336 / silver
7. / CRO 1 / Ivan / Sikirić / 0 / 100 / 100 / 50 / 50 / 10 / 310 / silver
8. / IRN 1 / Hamed / Nejad / 40 / 6 / 100 / 20 / 50 / 90 / 306 / silver
9. / CZE 3 / Milan / Straka / 20 / 70 / 100 / 0 / 30 / 50 / 270 / silver
10. / HUN 1 / Gábor / Pelládi / 30 / 100 / 10 / 20 / 50 / 50 / 260 / bronze
11. / CRO 2 / Lovro / Pužar / 20 / 60 / 100 / 50 / 20 / 10 / 260 / bronze
12. / SVK 4 / Tomáš / Dzetkulič / 10 / 80 / 100 / 20 / 30 / 10 / 250 / bronze
13. / CZE 2 / Jan / Kadlec / 20 / 40 / 40 / 60 / 50 / 40 / 250 / bronze
14. / SVK 7 / Michal / Malý / 10 / 100 / 30 / 10 / 50 / 40 / 240 / -
15. / SVK 6 / Pavol / Mravec / 20 / 80 / 10 / 100 / 20 / 10 / 240 / -
16. / SVK 3 / Radovan / Bauer / 30 / 30 / 100 / 0 / 40 / 40 / 240 / bronze
17. / CRO 3 / Luka / Kalinovčić / 0 / 60 / 100 / 80 / 0 / 0 / 240 / bronze
18. / IRN 4 / Mohammad / Bateni / 0 / 86 / 30 / 0 / 90 / 30 / 236 / bronze
19. / POL 3 / Marcin / Michalski / 10 / 16 / 100 / 50 / 30 / 10 / 216 / bronze
20. / CRO 4 / Marko / Živković / 0 / 100 / 40 / 10 / 50 / 10 / 210 / bronze
21. / CZE 1 / Tomáš / Gavenčiak / 30 / 10 / 20 / 50 / 50 / 40 / 200 / -
22. / GER 3 / Julian / Rüth / 10 / 80 / 30 / 0 / 50 / 20 / 190 / -
23. / GER 1 / Benjamin / Dittes / 20 / 70 / 40 / 40 / 0 / 20 / 190 / -
24. / HUN 4 / Gábor / Simkó / 20 / 70 / 10 / 10 / 50 / 0 / 160 / -
25. / POL 4 / Piotr / Stańczyk / 20 / 14 / 0 / 70 / 40 / 10 / 154 / -
26. / ROM 3 / Cosmin / Raianu / 0 / 0 / 100 / 10 / 10 / 20 / 140 / -
27. / SVK 8 / Marek / Tesař / 20 / 16 / 10 / 0 / 50 / 30 / 126 / -
28. / SVK 5 / Ján / Mazák / 0 / 53 / 10 / 0 / 50 / 10 / 123 / -
29. / SLO 1 / Tomaž / Gregorec / 20 / 30 / 0 / 10 / 50 / 10 / 120 / -
30. / HUN 2 / Gábor / Bergmann / 20 / 30 / 0 / 0 / 50 / 10 / 110 / -
31. / SLO 2 / Jurij / Kodre / 0 / 16 / 10 / 0 / 50 / 30 / 106 / -
32. / IRN 5 / Mohammad / Moharrami / 0 / 10 / 0 / 60 / 20 / 10 / 100 / -
33. / SLO 4 / Mitja / Trampuš / 0 / 0 / 40 / 0 / 50 / 0 / 90 / -
34. / ROM 4 / Markovits / Andrei / 10 / 30 / 0 / 30 / 0 / 20 / 90 / -
35. / IRN 2 / Siavosh / Benabbas / 10 / 40 / 0 / 0 / 30 / 10 / 90 / -
36. / IRN 3 / Hassan / Zakeri / 0 / 30 / 10 / 0 / 30 / 10 / 80 / -
37. / GER 2 / Alexander / Hullmann / 0 / 0 / 10 / 30 / 20 / 10 / 70 / -
38. / IRN 6 / Ashkan / Nikseresht / 0 / 0 / 10 / 0 / 40 / 10 / 60 / -
39. / HUN 3 / Tamás / Fehér / 0 / 0 / 30 / 30 / 0 / 0 / 60 / -
40. / CZE 4 / Jiří / Danihelka / 20 / 16 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 10 / 46 / -
41. / GER 4 / Melanie / Schmidt / 0 / 0 / 10 / 0 / 0 / 30 / 40 / -
42. / SLO 3 / Luka / Bradeško / 0 / 0 / 0 / 10 / 0 / 10 / 20 / -
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Slovak Team 1
Peter Bella
(* January 26th, 1984)
books: horror stories
movie: Wings of Desire (in Slovak Nebo nad Berlínom)
music: Joe Cocker
games: he doesn’t play
motto:Nikdy nezabudni tvár svojho otca
Jozef Tvarožek
(* March 14th, 1984)
book: Temná veža
movie: Underground
music: folk
game: Free cell
motto:The harder you fall, the higher you bounce (Horace)
Radovan Bauer
(* January 25th, 1984)
book: The Lord of the Rings
movie: Star Wars
music: Queen
game: Might and Magic 6
motto: no
Tomáš Dzetkulič
(* December 6th, 1983)
book: Winnetou (Karl May)
movie: Star Wars
music: Linkin Park, Shaggy
games: Quake
motto:Only dead fish swim down the river
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Slovak Team 2
Ján Mazák
(* August 7th, 1984)
book: 1984 (George Orwell)
movie: The Lord of the Rings
music: nearly all
game: Civilization
motto: no
Pavol Mravec
(* November 5th, 1983)
book: The Lord of the Rings
movie: Matrix
music: nearly all genres
game: Baldur’s Gate II
motto: no
Michal Malý
(* December 21st, 1983)
books: Surely you are joking, Mr. Feynmann
movie: Císařův pekař, Pekařův císař
music: Jean-Michel Jarre
game: Duna 2
motto:Neriaď sa žiadnymi mottami
Marek Tesař
(* October 8th, 1983)
book: Čachtická pani
movie: all good comedies
music: he doesn’t listen
games: he doesn’t play
motto:Ak nejde o život, ide o ...
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Crossword – solution
Here is your hat, Albert. If you invent another computer language, it’s over between us. (Vladimír Jiránek)
CEOI 2002 NEWS; editors: Stanislav Krajči, Štefan Lančarič, Tomáš Madaras, Dávid Paták; photographer: Martin Rázus; language correctors: Jana Jacková, Jan Vinař;